{"id":1818,"date":"2009-04-22T21:20:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/04\/rye-meads-butterflies\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:20:03","slug":"rye-meads-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"Rye Meads Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Finally, to finish off my posts on Rye Meads nature reserve, the butterflies. It was a beautiful spring day and there were a fair few about, mostly the species shown below. I took all of these photos with an 80-400mm zoom lens at the 400mm end which can only focus about 6.5 feet away as a minimum. I think they&#39;ve come out remarkably well, and this approach has the advantage of not having to get really close to the butterfly, scaring it off as you might with a macro lens. Maybe I&#39;ve stumbled into a brilliant new butterfly photography technique! Remember that as always you can click on any photo for a larger version.<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>This is a Comma butterfly, notable for the shapely edge to its wing. It&#39;s known as a Comma because of the small comma shaped mark on the underside of the wing, but you&#39;ll rarely see that.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570404596970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RyeMeadButteflyComma 6485\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011570404596970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570404596970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Next, an Orange-tip butterfly on a Dandelion. The name is fairly self-explanatory. For the plant as well frankly.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401157040467c970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RyeMeadButteflyOrangeTip 6486\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e0158883401157040467c970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401157040467c970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">And finally a Peacock butterfly, with the classic eyes on the wings to scare off predators. I somehow overcame my terror and got close enough to photograph it with as much detail as a 400mm lens at 6.5 feet will allow!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570404862970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RyeMeadButteflyPeacock 6487\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011570404862970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570404862970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, to finish off my posts on Rye Meads nature reserve, the butterflies. It was a beautiful spring day and there were a fair few about, mostly the species shown below. I took all of these photos with an 80-400mm zoom lens at the 400mm end which can only focus about 6.5 feet away as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}